Refinery Project

Mechanical Engineering Magazine
<a href="http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/webonly/webex910.html">http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/webonly/webex910.html</a>

"An upgraded, custom-built PC running on dual 500 Mhz Pentium IIIs (with 390 MB of RAM, a 64 MB video card, and a 17 gigabyte disc drive) is used solely to run models, so BES engineers can continue working on other projects. On these machines, runs were done in three hours per load step."

Sheesh, my computer has that many processors running at triple that speed, more RAM, double the video card random access memory and gobs more storage. I mean, you'd think that these guys would be running a computer better than that.

Oh, wait, I think my system's BSODing again...back in a minute.

Paul Received on Sat Sep 20 04:38:00 2003